Ruth Shaw runs a cluster of three wee bookshops in remote Manapōuri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. She lives with her husband, Lance. In 2022 she published her first memoir, The Bookseller at the End of the World, which has since become a critically acclaimed national and international treasure. It has been translated into Italian, Dutch, German, Turkish, Chinese, Swedish, Russian, Slovakian, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese and Hungarian. Her second book Bookshop Dogs came out in October 2023 and instantly became a NZ bestseller. It was published in both the UK and in the US in late 2024 and is translated into Italian and Russian.